Florida Drupal User Group October Meetup

The turn out for the last meet up was impressive ... looking forward to this one.

I was thinking about what I was going to do for the module development talk I'm giving on Saturday and I thought I'd ask if somebody has a good idea for a small module that they need built (or at least get a head-start in).

Ideally, I'd like to build something using Drupal 6.x, but I can be convinced to do it in 5.x.

If you have any ideas, leave a comment!

Thanks,
-mike

Mike

I vote you use D6 it is at critical mass. I haven't really found any problems except beta / alpha / missing modules which are coming fast.

It may be good to find an "example" module on the web somewhere and work through it so there is some reference that we can use later to figure it out.

There are some good examples in the drupal books I have .... I think most of them have the code available for download

Joe Moraca
http://www.floridatransitoptions.com

Mike,

I hope to be able to show my current database project and I'm using D5 since the import module is not out for 6 yet. The question I have is: How do you know when you need to write an app specific module or not? I'm still trying to figure out whether existing modules/functionality (blocks, views, panels) will do the job or do I need to write my own.

Andrew @ MindComet:

Is the network fixed so that we can get to the internet with our own laptops? I need to VPN into my home server.

JCL

When I did a similar presentation at Drupalcamp Colorado I called my module burrito. It was an extremely simple module that created a basic content type in order to focus more on the proper implementation of the core hooks than a specific problem. Creating an object like a burrito was something everyone could understand so they were free to focus on the mechanics of the module.

I really need some time away, and I will be traveling to South Florida this weekend...

I was supposed to do the Organic Groups session, but I will have to reschedule, or ask someone else to take over for me.

I wish I could go, because I'm sure we need to talk DrupalCamp... I know Andrew hooked up the conference call line once over the summer -- I'd be down for being present for DrupalCamp Orlando plans.

Ryan Price
Florida Creatives

The agenda for tomorrow's meetup is shaking out like this:

1. introductions
2. show and tell
3. module development (presented by myself)
4. DrupalCamp planning

While the meeting is schedule from 1-5PM, with Ryan unable to make it, it looks like we'll have some free time. The way I see it, we can handle this is one of three ways:

1. Shorter meeting
2. Allow additional time for the schedule items (listed above)
3. Have someone step up and cover one of the many other additional topics on our list:

Theming: views
Theming: theme function overrides
Theming: CSS and Drupal
Theming: template files
Theming: review and full site theming
Site planning
Coder module
Drupal performance
Mapping/GIS
Issue Queue/Creating/Applying Patches
Module Development focused on FormAPIs
Adobe Flex
User-friendly admin (Workspace module, RootCandy theme, etc...)

My thinking is that since module development is sort of a "code heavy" topic, if we're going to add something, it should be geared more toward Drupal beginners and/or themers.

Keep in mind that the November meetup is tentatively schedule to cover "Image handling and Galleries (imagecache, thickbox, imagefield)". We don't have anyone penciled in to lead the discussion as of yet. At this point I'm thinking that it can be a team effort with Ryan Price, Kevin Bridges, and myself leading the charge unless somebody else wants to step up. (Ryan, Kevin - no need to thank me for volunteering you!)

-mike

But I could do an intro to drupal theming if we want to use the time.

How to intall a new theme - using zen

How to create a new zen based subtheme.

Let me know what you think

Joe Moraca
http://www.moraca.org

Mike,

I would like to spend a little extra time with my site/project and could be used as a newbie's guide on how to take a problem to be solved and how best to use Drupal to solve. I'm at the point now where I've got all these Drupal components built but need guidance on how to tie them all together. Could be a nice review as well of the many topics we've covered so far such as views, panels, CCK, etc.

JCL

I won't be able to make it this afternoon. Have a good meeting and I'll catch you all next month for sure.

Dan